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Kent County Council discusses child services report
Kent County Council discusses child services report
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A report which criticised Kent County Council (KCC) for leaving more than 2,000 children at risk of significant harm has been discussed by councillors.
An Ofsted report in November concluded its childcare protection was inadequate in almost every area following an unannounced inspection in August 2010.
Former Kent chief executive Peter Gilroy was asked to attend as a witness by the councilâ€s scrutiny committee.
Current officers and cabinet members also attended Wednesdayâ€s meeting.
Before the meeting a spokesman for the authority said: â€oeCommittee members will be asking how and why the county council received a critical report on its Childrenâ€s Safeguarding Services last October.â€
Public apology
The Ofsted report said services for children looked after in Kent were inadequate overall, mainly because of low educational attainment.
Safeguarding services were inadequate because of a high number of children not receiving quality assessments, high case loads for social workers, and inadequate management and supervision.
Conservative council leader Paul Carter issued a public apology following the findings, saying the authority had not been rigorous enough.
In April KCC announced that more than 30 social workers had started investigating a backlog of 1,000 child protection cases which had no dedicated case worker.
The special team, which was recruited at a cost of £2m, joined another 20 staff who were redeployed to look at the cases from 1 April.
The 50 social workers are expected to take between three to six months to complete the job.
MY THOUGHTS
I am really sick and tired of putting and tagging my blog with Local Authority failings.
Over 2,000 children left at risk of abuse, disgraceful figures,what are our Local Authority staff doing? living it up on corporate hospitality ?
What are the County Councilors doing with reference to their job under the clause of Corporate Parents, it looks like they are doing nothing? they possibly donâ€t even understand the meaning of the clause, i suggest that they get off their backsides and look into these terrible statistics.
1000 CHILDREN WITHOUT A KEY SOCIAL WORKER THINGS ARE JUST GETTING WORSE.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-13620309 [bbc.co.uk]
THESE CHILDREN MAY HAVE BEEN TAKING FROM LOVING PARENTS WITH VERY LITTLE EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT SUCH ACTION.
Continue reading the main story
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* Childcare expert reviews adoption
* Kent tackles 1,000 child cases
* Concern over child services plan
A report which criticised Kent County Council (KCC) for leaving more than 2,000 children at risk of significant harm has been discussed by councillors.
An Ofsted report in November concluded its childcare protection was inadequate in almost every area following an unannounced inspection in August 2010.
Former Kent chief executive Peter Gilroy was asked to attend as a witness by the councilâ€s scrutiny committee.
Current officers and cabinet members also attended Wednesdayâ€s meeting.
Before the meeting a spokesman for the authority said: â€oeCommittee members will be asking how and why the county council received a critical report on its Childrenâ€s Safeguarding Services last October.â€
Public apology
The Ofsted report said services for children looked after in Kent were inadequate overall, mainly because of low educational attainment.
Safeguarding services were inadequate because of a high number of children not receiving quality assessments, high case loads for social workers, and inadequate management and supervision.
Conservative council leader Paul Carter issued a public apology following the findings, saying the authority had not been rigorous enough.
In April KCC announced that more than 30 social workers had started investigating a backlog of 1,000 child protection cases which had no dedicated case worker.
The special team, which was recruited at a cost of £2m, joined another 20 staff who were redeployed to look at the cases from 1 April.
The 50 social workers are expected to take between three to six months to complete the job.
MY THOUGHTS
I am really sick and tired of putting and tagging my blog with Local Authority failings.
Over 2,000 children left at risk of abuse, disgraceful figures,what are our Local Authority staff doing? living it up on corporate hospitality ?
What are the County Councilors doing with reference to their job under the clause of Corporate Parents, it looks like they are doing nothing? they possibly donâ€t even understand the meaning of the clause, i suggest that they get off their backsides and look into these terrible statistics.
1000 CHILDREN WITHOUT A KEY SOCIAL WORKER THINGS ARE JUST GETTING WORSE.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-13620309 [bbc.co.uk]
THESE CHILDREN MAY HAVE BEEN TAKING FROM LOVING PARENTS WITH VERY LITTLE EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT SUCH ACTION.
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